bc> Ummm... sorry Rick, but I saw it and the Sysop of that particular
bc> BBS saw it too. Regardless of the mathematical equations linking
bc> this "barrier", I know what I saw and both of us (the Sysop and
bc> I) confirmed this connection between ourselves, therefore this
bc> argument is moot at best. You and the others here can state all
bc> sorts of technical jargon, limitations, line noise, flatulence,
bc> ad nauseum.... the fact still remains that I did see this speed
bc> from my Courier being connected to another Courier.
Bill you are probably correct when you said that you saw that speed
from your Courier.  I have a V.Everything too.  Rick may not have
explained his reasoning to you in ways that you could understand what
he was saying.
To give you my example:
A local BBS *stores* all message in a ZIP archive QWK packet.  These
ASCII files stored in the archive and are sent at a faster speed since
the individual files inside the packet are not compressed.
The archive ZIP is merely acting as a library containing the
individual files which the sender wants to keep together rather than
sending each and every one separately.  (Just as LIBRARY files did in
the early '80.)
Looking back at my recent commo log shows the speed of two packets in
which the individual messages were stored:
QWK archive of 57,213k downloaded at 5509 cps
QWK archive of 73,045k downloaded at 5585 cps
ASCII files seem to always transfer faster than binary files.
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